Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Gotta admit that my first reaction to ChatGPT as a college instructor was a mixture of fascination & dread. Now I am encouraging my journalism students to use and interrogate AI services as part of their education. Here's why:

https://www.thescoop.org/archives/2023/02/11/teaching-journalism-with-chatgpt/

"We will not stand by while the University of Michigan continues to support and help recruit people into the US military-industrial complex. We will not stand by while the state expands its capacity to brutally repress our communities by expanding Camp Grayling in Michigan and building Cop City in Atlanta."

#Michigan #StopCampGrayling

https://itsgoingdown.org/university-of-michigan-career-fair-disrupted-over-military-recruiters/

"Ineffective oversight and a largely self-monitoring industry that has cut the nation’s rail workforce to the bone in recent years as it puts record profits over safety is responsible for the wreck..."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/ohio-train-derailment-wake-up-call

"A handful of companies own the #patents on virtually every #seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing #biodiversity back to #farming."
https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/

#agriculture #food #monopoly #ossi (Open Source Seed Initiative)

FYI, I link to two earlier reports on this problem (2017 and 2019) in a tweet from 2020.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1317831041055399936

#OpenSource Software Encode/Decode For H.266/VVC Progressing

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Source-VVC-H266

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/phoronix/status/1624444773003063296

OMG! It's like... surround sound... ?? Whoow... Wtf has #Linux been doing all these years?? :D #DistroHopped to #Ubuntu Mate 22.10. #PipeWire is awsome! No crackling, no losing the headset midflight, no bad audio or blowing my voip buddies ears out when switching profiles/drivers, discovering new capabilities out of headset etc.

Guys, if you run Linux and you use #bluetooth for audio, that pain in your ass, it might very well be fixed by firing PulseAudio and hiring PipeWire instead.

Brave Browser Switches to HTTPS by Default

✅ Brave 1.5 (upcoming) plans for HTTPS by default
✅ Automatically detects HTTP sites and attempts to upgrade the connection to HTTPS
✅ Less dependency on the "HTTPS Everywhere" extension which is now out of support!

https://debugpointnews.com/brave-https-by-default/

#brave #browser #privacy #linux

#TIL There are alternatives to Google Translate and DeepL that don't track you.

One option is Lingva, a proxy front-end to Google Translate. Another one is LibreTranslate. In contrast to Linva LibreTranslate doesn't rely on proprietary providers. Instead, its translation engine is powered by the open-source Argos Translate library.

You can self-host both, #Lingva and #LibraTranslate, or use one of the public instances.

#FOSS #privacy #deepl #googletranslate

Yep. And at some point I wish that the #opensource community of developers and contributors finally realize that #Google is NOT their friends (at all).

bah! who needs ads when that sweet sweet $8/mo subscription revenue is flowing in?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/tech/twitter-top-advertiser-decline

MAGA Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Claimed Jewish Heritage. Her Family Says That’s Not True. | A new report says the congresswoman doesn’t have Jewish roots, and her grandfather served in the Nazi army. She also appears to have embellished other parts of her biography.

https://newrepublic.com/post/170542/maga-republican-rep-anna-paulina-luna-jewish-heritage-family-says-not-true

#republican #nazi

@pluralistic

As Paul Krugman points out, the first thing people do when they get real money is they start buying time. They start hiring people to do things that take time. They pay premiums to go to fronts of lines.

Lawyer dies after his hidden gun goes off during MRI scan

Leandro Mathias de Novaes’ gun went off due to magnetic field in the MRI scanning room:

It's a superconducting electromagnet, mate. The metal detectors on the door aren't there for your explodey penis substitute, they're there because ferrous metals go ZOOOOM if they get too close to the high-Tesla field!

It's like the dipshit ignored the pre-MRI fact sheet/briefing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-lawyer-death-mri-gun-b2279514.html

"The denial of dignity to one segment of the political community, then, threatens the dignity of all. This was true for Douglass and his time — it inspired his support for women’s suffrage and his opposition to the Chinese Exclusion Act — and it is true for us and ours as well. To deny equal respect and dignity to any part of the citizenry is to place the entire country on the road to tiered citizenship and limited rights, to liberty for some and hierarchy for the rest."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/opinion/trump-desantis-transgender-rights.html?smid=tw-share

@carnage4life

2001: “Don’t be Evil”

2023: “Don’t be Google”

If you ever needed proof that Republicans are completely under the control of a foreign dictator working to destroy the United States, bookmark this toot.

Putin wants stupid uneducated Americans.

👉👉 "Montana bill would ban teaching of scientific theories in schools"👈 👈

So, I thought I'd dust off the #SecretSciFiNetwork for a pair of questions.

What is your favorite #SciFi trope?
I mean what will you watch every time they make a movie about it?

And what's your least favorite SciFi trope?
What are you tired of or never really liked.

As always, please boost to reach as many science fiction lovers as possible, and include #SecretSciFiNetwork in your response.

And of course no gatekeeping, no arguing. Plenty of room for different takes.